How to Get Rid of a Cold Fast

A cold can ruin your day. Bur some natural remedies can help you to get rid of it.

Step 1: Hydratation

Liquids will help you fighting the symptoms. This is the most important measure, and also the simplest. Drink a lot of weak juice or sports drinks, hot water with lemon and honey, herbal teas and ginger ale. Hot liquids also help relieve nasal congestion. But be careful, you have to avoid coffee, black tea, caffeinated soft drinks and alcohol. These drinks, especially in excess, will have a diuretic effect and can actually dehydrate you.

Step 2: Heat

The feeling of a hot wet cloth on your nose or over your eyes will help relieve congested or painful sinuses.

Step 3: Rest

Your body needs energy to fight the infection. Keep it as much as possible. If you can't sleep all day, be careful to avoid too much physical exertion.

Step 4: Nasal Sprays

To clean out your sinuses, don't hesitate to use a nasal spray. Prefer salt sprays before antihistamines and topical decongestants.

Step 5: Honey

It's a well-known fact, honey relieve cold symptoms. With ginger tea or just hot water, it will soothe your throat.

Step 6: Humidity

Keep the air around you moist by placing a humidifier where you sleep spend time during the day. Humid environment are inhospitable to the virus. Change the water regularly. You can add some eucalyptus oil to the water.

Step 7: Blow Your Nose

Do it as much as you can. Sniffling this discharge back up into your sinuses will only prolong your infection and potentially worsen it.